holy terror

a holy terror

A very troublesome, aggressive, or aggravating person; a person who is exasperatingly difficult in manner or behavior. I know that I was a holy terror when I was young, so I guess it's fitting that my own kids give me so much trouble.

holy terror

An exasperating individual, as in He was only five, but he was a holy terror, running wild through the house and throwing whatever he could lay his hands on . The adjective holy here is an intensifier. [Late 1800s]

As an ultimate political act, the editors of Holy Terrors have sought to bridge the gap between artist and critic, thus positioning the artists' work as an open field in which women circulate, not only as commodities, but also as agents of change.

In Holy Terrors, editors Diana Taylor and Roselyn Costantino have assembled 26 documents, including critical readings by scholars, artists' statements and manifestos, texts for the stage, and interviews with their subject playwrights, that give a crazy quilt account of women performing theater in Latin America.

AT AN AGE when church becomes boring and starts losing priority over hockey practice or sleeping in, the youth group at Ottawa's Christ Church, aka the Holy Terrors, has been defying the trends and growing both in number and in popularity.

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